SCENE: A plumpish man in a derby hat and a suit is smoking a cigar as he speaks to an astonished young woman.

MAN: You remind me of me...when I still cared about people...like you!

1945 Artist Unknown Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira

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fine jams and jellies since 1982
on May 12, 2020 at 6:38 pm

Why is he clutching the left lapel of his coat? And what does the gang sign he’s flashing with his other hand mean? And, perhaps most importantly of all, why is there a woman’ head growing out of his right shoulder?

I read the original to try to get some answers. But when I got to the underwear scene, I suddenly stopped caring about any of my previous concerns. So points to the author for that.

I noticed that as a pattern in all the stories in that magazine. Like in ‘Crusoe Island’ you keep wondering why no one is treating that woman’s out-of-control jaundice. But then they throw a guy on spikes and there’s allusions to a threesome, so all good.

Or ‘Werewolf Hunter’, a strip about hunting werewolves but without a werewolf in sight. There’s some old guy who shrinks and something about what really happened to Natalie Wood that day on the boat, but no werewolf. However, a guy in a bow tie gets punched, so still oddly satisfying.

It appears the morale here is that story isn’t necessary when you have lots of sexy violence. Then again, I guess we already knew that. So absolutely nothing was learned and I got to see a picture of a woman in her skivvies. All in all a good day. Thanks John!

I haven’t gone back to read the entire story, but just hearing Jam’s comment on the underwear scene was so funny that as soon as I can breathe again I’m going to go have to look it up. The way you put it, I can see the that scene going eight different directions, seven of which are bad and all of which would be illegal in some of our more conservative states.